Emergency maintenance for...

[Kerwin]

[dice137]

Regardless of the specifics, the servers weren't down all that long. There's little reason for the outrage, lol. Was it annoying if you had plans? Possibly, sure. But it ain't all that big of a deal.

[Giantbane]

Regardless of the specifics, the servers weren't down all that long. There's little reason for the outrage, lol. Was it annoying if you had plans? Possibly, sure. But it ain't all that big of a deal.

The issue is taking the game down at all just to make a few items dyeable. Doesn't seem like a good reason.

Although I have to admit I enjoyed the super A train hunts after the maintenance.

[Fynlar]

The update was able to be downloaded about 1.5 hours in. The servers themselves were still down for just about nearly the entire 3 hours.

[Gilthas]

The issue is taking the game down at all just to make a few items dyeable. Doesn't seem like a good reason.

Why do people keep saying this? As MULTIPLE people have already mentioned, patch notes only contain visible changes to the game.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Well this was more entertaining than playing the game itself

[Saseal]

Actually, ever since this emergency maint (I wasn't on at all when the maintenance happened, but was on this evening) the RMTs on Couerl..... have been pretty silent... o.o Got a total of maybe 5 or 6 for being on for 5ish hours o.o ...which is absolutely silent. o.o *Absolute bliss T^T*

o______o did they do something to help in the emerg maint, I wonder xD (Or am I in the Twilight Zone?)
If that was the case, I absolutely /bow /clap /thumbsup /rally /joy this emerg maint

(I just hope I'm not jumping the gun)

[Tauu]

This game does go down an awful lot. I don't have much time to play and it seems like 1/3 of the nights I get a chance to log in and get something done there's a maintenance. I don't remember FFXI being this way. Does this game go down every week?

[Jeckyl_Tesla]

This game does go down an awful lot. I don't have much time to play and it seems like 1/3 of the nights I get a chance to log in and get something done there's a maintenance. I don't remember FFXI being this way. Does this game go down every week?

I think that's just on your end. I've seen very little emergency maintenance's while playing this game.

[kyuven]

This game does go down an awful lot. I don't have much time to play and it seems like 1/3 of the nights I get a chance to log in and get something done there's a maintenance. I don't remember FFXI being this way. Does this game go down every week?

The game goes down about once a week for 3 hours unless there's a big patch, which happens once a month.
They've been shifting when this downtime is so the same group of players (aside from those who play 12+ hours a day) won't be affected by the same maintenance twice.
I'd say in a given month there's 1 major patch and 2-3 emergency patches. Sometimes more in a month with a large patch.
I've seen much, much worse. It's really about average for an MMO that isn't 10+ years old.